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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Alan Weisman's 'Hope Dies Last' weaves stories of environmental hope
Description: On this week's episode of Mongabay's podcast, best-selling author Alan Weisman details the people and places he visited in reporting his new book, Hope Dies Last, a chronicle of miraculous accomplishments and resilience of the book's protagonists, many of whom are working to solve humanity's most intractable ecological problems. The book's impetus was an accumulation of despair at the state of the world and how humanity treats it. "I started this book because I was really, really, really depressed about how I saw systems breaking down," Weisman says. But as he uncovered each story, Weisman's...